POEM

POETRY

I HAVEN’T GOT A PET I’ve got a father and a mother And a very smelly brother A grandma and a grandpa But I haven’t got a pet I’ve got an auntie and an uncle Little sisters by the dozen Ninety seven second cousins But I haven’t got a pet Except……….. I have got a slug Which I keep under the rug Don’t tell Mum!

At the Zoo

Photo of a Lion

There are lions and roaring tigers,

Photo of a Tiger

and enormous camels and things,

Photo of Camels

There are biffalo-buffalo-bisons,

Photo of Bison

and a great big bear with wings.

Photo of a Bear with Wings

There’s a sort of a tiny potamus,

Photo of a Tiny Hippopotamus

and a tiny nosserus too-

Photo of a Tiny Rhinoceros

But I gave buns to the elephant

Photo of an Elephant and a Bun

when I went down to the Zoo!


There are badgers and bidgers and bodgers,

Photo of a Badger

and a Super-in-tendent’s House,

Photo of the Superintendent's House

There are masses of goats, and a Polar,

Photo of Goats

Photo of a Polar Bear

and different kinds of mouse,

Picture of Mice

And I think there’s a sort of a something
which is called a wallaboo*-

Photo of a Wallaby

But I gave buns to the elephant

Photo of an Elephant and a Bun

when I went down to the Zoo!


If you try to talk to the bison,

Photo of Bison

he never quite understands;
You can’t shake hands with a mingo**-

Photo of a Mingo

he doesn’t like shaking hands.
And lions and roaring tigers

Photo of a Lion

hate saying, “How do you do?”-

Photo of a Tiger

But I gave buns to the elephant

Photo of an Elephant and a Bun

when I went down to the Zoo!